Historically Thinking

We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigo

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Episode 338: Rivals

Posted October 16, 2023 • 01:03:26

“The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind of community”, writes my guest. “For starters, no one knows who exactly belongs...

Episode 337: Disorder

Posted October 10, 2023 • 01:04:05

"Today’s international system is like a ship adrift during a pandemic. With the captain lost to the virus, and the most capable and conscientious...

Episode 336: Tory’s Wife

Posted October 2, 2023 • 01:01:35

In 1785, Jane Welborn Spurgin of Abbots Creek in Rowan County, North Carolina petititioned the North Carolina Legislature, attesting her right to 704...

Intellectual Humility Series: What’s Historical Thinking Got to Do With It?

Posted September 28, 2023 • 00:44:22

Way back in April, I dropped the first two podcasts in what are intended to be a series on historical thinking and intellectual humility. They were...

Episode 335: PAX

Posted September 25, 2023 • 00:58:19

‘If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous,...